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Make title bar icons more visible, match brand colors #5582

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Make title bar icons more visible
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Update existing SVGs instead of making new ones, fix references
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Merge branch 'main' into jl-title-icon-very-visible
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Update function name for clarity
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions .changeset/brand-color-view-icon.md
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"kilo-code": patch
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Add brand-colored Kilo Code icon to editor title bar for better visibility
6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions src/assets/icons/kilo-brand-dark.svg
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions src/assets/icons/kilo-brand-light.svg
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/package.json
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"command": "kilo-code.open",
"title": "%views.activitybar.title%",
"icon": {
"light": "assets/icons/kilo-light.svg",
"dark": "assets/icons/kilo-dark.svg"
"light": "assets/icons/kilo-brand-light.svg",
"dark": "assets/icons/kilo-brand-dark.svg"

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why not replace the existing icons? Or are they still used elsewhere? Having multiple seems bad to me for consistency?

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@markijbema - they are used elsewhere:

  • The ChatView
  • Commit message generation
  • AgentManager panel

Let me try to swap them though and see how it looks. I was trying to go for a minimal change, but the color may help on the commit message generation as it's really hard to see otherwise.

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So here is a test, what do you think @markijbema? I'll ask Halyna (our designer) too.

My gut feel is:

  • I like the updated commit message so it pops a bit more, I never knew it was there until someone told me. I think we change this for the same reason as the view title bar to open Kilo Code. (It's so easy to miss)
  • I don't like the agent manager view title icon, it seems unnecessarily attention-grabbing given other view title icons. There is title text to provide the clarity.
  • The agentmanager main page doesn't update currently, but can be adjusted.
  • I'm ambivalent on the chatview change. I tried to make it animate for fun, but lottie is big. (>1MB)

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image image image ### Light image image image

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i actually like the agent manager, since that tab is buried between file tabs, so you might actually need the extra visibility. I'd vote for consistently changing.

I find the yellow icon in the chat a bit much, but then again, you're not often in that tab when you're actually using kilo, so I think it's fine

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